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{{Refimprove|date=July 2008}}'''Linda Moulton Howe''' ({{birth date and age|1942|1|20}}) is a regional-]-award-winning ] ] and documentary producer-writer-director-editor who is currently based in ], ].<ref name=LMHOWE>{{cite web| title =(www.nexusmagazine.com) Bio: Linda Moulton Howe | url=http://www.nexusmagazine.com/Conf%202005/Linda%20Moulton%20Howe.html | accessdate = 2008-02-10}}</ref> She has a daughter, Laura Kathleen Howe, from her marriage (1968-1986) to Larry W. Howe. Her father was Chet Moulton, Idaho's Director of Aeronautics from 1946 to 1971 and recipient of many aviation honors. Her mother was Mabel K. Moulton. Her brother is James Moulton, an aviation simulator instructor at Lockheed-Martin.
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'''Linda Moulton Howe''' (born January 20, 1942) is an American ] and ]-winning ] maker best known for her work as a ] and advocate of a variety of ], including her investigation of ]s and conclusion that they are performed by ]. She is also noted for her speculations that the U.S. government is working with aliens.<ref name="Knight2003">{{cite book|author=Peter Knight|title=Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&pg=PA125|access-date=18 October 2012|year=2003|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-812-9|pages=125–}}</ref><ref name="Barkun2006">{{cite book|author=Michael Barkun|title=A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LiwjVsNBw-cC&pg=PA86|access-date=18 October 2012|date=4 May 2006|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-24812-0|pages=86–}}</ref><ref name="Schultz1999"></ref><ref name="Landes2000">{{cite book|author=Richard Landes|title=Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eVZaI20_mEC&pg=PA731|access-date=18 October 2012|date=6 July 2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-92246-3|pages=731–}}</ref>
==Early life and education==

Howe was born in ]. She entered the 1963 Miss Boise pageant for college scholarships and went on to win the 1963 ] crown and scholarships, and participated in the ] that year in Atlantic City. In 1966, Howe was awarded the Stanley Baubaire Scholarship for her Master's Degree work at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. and later received her Masters Degree in Communication from ] in 1968, where she produced a documentary film for the ] and her Master's Thesis, "A Picture Calculus," at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. Howe received her 1965 B. A. ''cum laude'' in English Literature from the ].
==Early life==
She was born Linda Ann Moulton in ].<ref name="IdahoStateJournal1974">
{{cite journal
| date = June 17, 1974
| title = Winner of miss Idaho fits 1974 Contestant Composite
| journal = ]
| publisher = University of Northern Colorado
}} "Miss Bacon is the fourth Boisean to win the state title in 25 years. Her predecessors have included . . . Linda Moulton Howe, 1963, Los Angeles TV producer and winner of an Emmy certificate for documentary work; . . ." with clickable newspaper image.</ref> Howe entered the 1963 Miss Boise pageant for college ]s and went on to win the 1963 ] crown<ref name="IdahoStateJournal1974" /> and scholarships, and participated in the ] pageant that year in ]. Howe received her 1965 ] '']'' in ] from the ]. In 1966, Howe was awarded the Stanley Baubaire Scholarship for her ] work at ], ]. She received her master's degree in communication from ] in 1968, where she produced a documentary film for the ] and her Master's Thesis, "A Picture Calculus," at the ].{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}


==Career== ==Career==
Howe has devoted her documentary film, television, radio, writing and reporting career to productions concerning science, medicine and the environment. Ms. Howe has received local, national and international awards, including three regional ]s, a national Emmy nomination and a Station Peabody award for medical programming. While Linda was Director of Special Projects at ], Channel 7, Denver, Colorado from 1978 to 1983, her documentaries included ''Poison in the Wind'' and ''A Sun Kissed Poison'' which compared smog pollution in ] and ]; ''Fire In The Water'' about hydrogen as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels; ''A Radioactive Water'' about uranium contamination of public drinking water in a Denver suburb; and ''A Strange Harvest'' and ''Strange Harvests 1993'', which explored the worldwide ] that has haunted the United States and other countries since the late 1950’s and continues to date. Another film, ''A Prairie Dawn'', focused on astronaut training in Denver. She has also produced documentaries in Ethiopia and Mexico for ] about child survival efforts and for ] in ] about environmental challenges in the TV series ''Earthbeat''. Howe's early work focused on ]. From 1978 to 1983, Howe was Director of Special Projects at ], Channel 7, ], Colorado. Her documentaries included ''Poison in the Wind'' and ''A Sun Kissed Poison'' which compared ] ] in ] and Denver, ''Fire In The Water'' about ] as an ] source to ]s, and ''A Radioactive Water'' about ] contamination of public ] in a Denver suburb. Howe was on staff at ] when the station won an ] for institutional excellence in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/institutional-award-wcvb-tv-for-overall-programming-excellence|title=Institutional Award: WCVB-TV for Overall Programming Excellence|access-date=2016-07-22}}</ref>


In 1980, Howe produced ''A Strange Harvest'', a documentary that suggested unusual wounds found on cattle are the work of ] who harvest body parts required for their survival or research, and that the U.S. government is complicit. The documentary<ref>{{cite journal
In addition to television, Linda produces, reports and edits the award-winning science, environment and earth mysteries news website, http://www.Earthfiles.com, which also has podcasts at http://www.Earthfiles333.com. In 2006, Earthfiles received the W3 Silver Award for Excellence in the news category. In 2003, Earthfiles received an Award for Standard of Excellence presented by the internet’s WebAward Association. Earthfiles also received the 2001 '']'' Award for Journalistic Excellence. Linda also reports monthly science, environment and earth mysteries news for Premiere Radio Networks ''] with George Noory'' and weekly news updates for ''Dreamland Radio'' at Unknowncountry.com.
| last = Hepp
| first= Jeff
| date = November 19, 1980
| title = Howe discusses various mutilation theories
| journal = ]
| publisher = University of Northern Colorado
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}}</ref> received a Regional Emmy award for Audio Achievement<ref>{{cite book
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|title=UFO Cover-up: What the Government Won't Say
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|quote=Ms. Howe has received several state and national awards for her documentary work, including a 1981 Regional Emmy for Audio Achievement in "A Strange Harvest."
|quote-page=28}}</ref> in 1981. Howe became known as a "staunch advocate" for these ideas, and began to focus on ] and speculate about alleged connections between cattle mutilations, ]s and supposed ], saying "I am convinced that one or more alien intelligences are affecting this planet".<ref name="Knight2003" /><ref name="Barkun2006" /> Although Howe claimed she was shown secret documents after being taken into confidence by an agent of the government, author John Greer wrote that Howe presented no evidence for such claims other than "the very ambiguous evidence provided by rotting cow carcasses".<ref name="Greer2009">{{cite book|author=John Michael Greer|title=The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYU1GrJjUZMC&pg=PA67|year=2009|publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide|isbn=978-0-7387-1319-9|pages=67–}}</ref><ref name="Regal2009">{{cite book|author=Brian Regal|title=Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia: A Critical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c6PACQAAQBAJ&pg=PA87|date=15 October 2009|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-35508-0|pages=87–}}</ref>


One Idaho state director of ] (MUFON) called her "the most preeminent UFO investigator in the world", and she was named as one of "the gurus of American ufology",<ref name="Schultz1999">{{cite book|author=Nancy Lusignan Schultz|title=Fear Itself: Enemies Real & Imagined in American Culture|url=https://archive.org/details/fearitselfenemie00schu|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-55753-115-5|pages=–}}</ref> although Howe has said she regards herself as a television producer and investigative reporter. Much of Howe's work includes speculations about what she terms "unexplained" phenomena, such as cattle mutilations, crop circles, UFO sightings, and ]s.<ref name="AP">{{cite web|title=Reporter says truth about UFOs is out there - She says ET life exists but Feds are covering it up|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19981130&id=11JWAAAAIBAJ&pg=3415,7864366&hl=en|website=Deseret News, November 30, 1998|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=9 April 2016}}</ref>
In 2005, she traveled to Amsterdam, Hawaii, and several other U. S. conferences to speak about her investigative journalism. She was interviewed for the ] award-winning documentary, ''Star Dreams'', about the worldwide crop circle mystery produced by Genesis Communications Corp.


Howe has produced numerous UFO related programming, including a two-hour special ''Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms'' in association with ]-Fox, ], was Supervising Producer and Original Concept Creator for ''UFO Report: Sightings'' financed by ] and the ] in Los Angeles that was first broadcast in October 1991 and became the '']'' series on Fox.
In 2004, Linda was on-camera TV reporter for ]’s ''UFO Files'' documentary investigation of an unusual August 2004 cow death in ]. Linda also traveled to Florence and San Marino, Italy, to speak about her earth mysteries investigations. She also produced and reported Earthfiles segments for Comcast Cable broadcasts in San Francisco and Los Angeles.


Howe appeared on a panel at ] press event held at the National Press Club in 2013, saying she believed "alien technology appears so advanced" that "space and time could be bent by outer space travelers, therefore allowing extraterrestrials to visit Earth".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ratner|first1=Ellen|title=Ex-Lawmakers' Extraterrestrial Hearings Blast Off|url=http://www.talkradionews.com/us/2013/04/29/ex-lawmakers-extraterrestrial-hearings-blast-off.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505071633/http://www.talkradionews.com/us/2013/04/29/ex-lawmakers-extraterrestrial-hearings-blast-off.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2016|website=Talk Radio News Service|access-date=9 April 2016}}</ref>
In 2003, Linda traveled to ] to report about the proliferation of crop formations and associated small, mysterious lights there and in other European countries. She also investigated unusual aerial light phenomena in ]. In 2002, Linda traveled to ] to join ], ] and ] in the study of “thermal plasmas of unknown origin” in the Hessdalen valley. In 2001, Linda traveled to Hong Kong and Laos to report for The ] television series, ''Modern Mysteries of Asia.''


Howe has proposed that some photographs of ] show evidence of mysterious energy she terms "visible light phenomena". ] described Howe as a "] journalist" in a 2002 article in '']'' magazine, saying that photos Howe published purporting to show mysterious energy are simply misinterpretations of photographic accidents, such as a camera's wrist strap reflecting the flash, or ] caused by floating dust, errors that Nickell calls "the stock-in-trade of ]".<ref name="Nickell2010">{{cite book|author=Joe Nickell|authorlink=Joe Nickell|title=The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21IIoCQC0VAC&pg=PT69|date=29 September 2010|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-3707-0|pages=69–}}</ref>
A few of her other television productions have included ''The World of Chemistry'' for ]; a two-hour special ''Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms'' in association with ]-Fox, ]. Linda was Supervising Producer and Original Concept Creator for ''UFO Report: Sightings'' financed by ] and the ] in ]. Its first broadcast was in October 1991, which became the '']'' series on Fox.


Howe was a frequent guest on '']'' for 28 years, dating back to 2003 with ], and 1991 with ]. In 2019, she ended her monthly appearances on the show.<ref>{{cite web |title=Linda Moulton Howe Announcement |url=https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/linda-moulton-howe-announcement |website=CoastToCoastAM.com |publisher=Premier Networks, Inc. |access-date=27 September 2019}}</ref> Howe has been interviewed on '']'' specials, ]; '']'', Fox; ''Sightings'' and ''Strange Universe'', Fox; NBC's ''The Other Side''; Britain's Union Pictures, ] and ]; ] special ''Evidence On Earth''; the ] network special, ''Mysterious Origins of Man'', and the History Channel television series '']''.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kurutz|first=Steven|date=2018-07-21|title=Suspicious Minds|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/style/ancient-aliens.html|access-date=2021-12-17|url-access=limited|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Linda was an honored medical producer in Boston’s ] Station Excellence Peabody Award. As Director of Special Projects at the KMGH-TV station in ], she received the Aviation & Space Writers Association Award for Writing Excellence in Television, a ] Golden Plaque for ''A Radioactive Water'', Colorado’s Florence Sabin Award for “outstanding contribution to public health” and several dozen other local and regional awards, including Emmys. She also worked as Director of International Programming for ''Earthbeat'', an environmental series broadcast on Turner’s WTBS Superstation, in Atlanta, Georgia.
===Travels and books===
Linda has traveled in Brazil, England, Norway, ], ], The ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], the ], and ] for research and productions. Linda has written four books: ''Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles'', 2nd edition, September 2002, about eyewitness accounts and scientific research of biophysical and biochemical changes in affected cereal crops by complex energy systems; ''An Alien Harvest'' about the worldwide animal mutilation phenomenon; ''Glimpses of Other Realities, Volumes I and II'' about U.S. military, intelligence and civilian testimonies concerning unidentified phenomena interacting with earth life.
Linda is also asked to speak as an investigative reporter at national and international conferences and symposia, including NASA's ], and has been interviewed on a '']'' special, ]; '']'', Fox; ''Sightings'' and ''Strange Universe'', Fox; NBC's ''The Other Side''; Britain's Union Pictures, ] and ]; ] special ''Evidence On Earth''; and the ] network special, ''Mysterious Origins of Man''.


Howe remains active as the host of a weekly broadcast on '']'' that dates back to 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxvQF6oBQYk|title=Earthfiles Vodcast|website=] |date=7 January 2007 |access-date=2023-11-16}}</ref>
Linda was a featured guest on the Friday July 27th (2007?) edition of "Coast To Coast AM" speaking about recent crop circles, and the alleged 'CARET drone' sightings (or hoax) of 2007.


==Film/TV Documentary== == Awards ==
* For her early work focusing on ]s, she received Colorado's Florence Sabin Award for “outstanding contribution to public health" in 1982.<ref>{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Guilty Madonnas - Medical
* Howe's'' An Alien Harvest'' received a New Mexico-Arizona Southwest Book Award in 2015.<ref></ref>
* Borrowed Faces - Environmental
* A Poison in the Wind – Environmental
* Sun Kissed Poison – Environmental
* Fire In The Water – Environmental
* A Strange Harvest – Environmental
* A Radioactive Water – Environmental
* A Prairie Dawn – Science and Technology
* Information's Electronic Future - Science and Technology
* Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms - Environmental
* Strange Harvests 1993 - Environmental
* Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms - Environmental
* Earthbeat - Environmental
* The Mole: World of Chemistry - Science
* UFO Report: Sightings - Environmental


== Personal life ==
'''Film/TV Background:''' Howe reported news and produced the weekly live news program, ''Inquiry'', at ], Los Angeles, 1968-1974; produced and wrote ''House Call'' with Timothy Johnson, M. D., WCVB-TV, Boston, 1974-1978; Director of Special Projects, KMGH-TV, Denver, 1978-1983; Owner Linda Moulton Howe Productions, 1983 to present; produced, wrote, directed and edited three documentaries for ], including ''UNICEF's 40th Anniversary'' in New York City, 1984, and ''New Hope in Child Survival'' in ], 1985; produced, wrote, directed and edited ''The Mole'' for World of Chemistry series, PBS, Washington, D. C., 1986; produced, wrote, directed and edited ''Information's Electronic Future'' in Denver, Colorado, 1987; Director of International Programming for ''Earthbeat'', ], Atlanta, 1989-1990; produced, wrote, directed and edited ''Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms,'' and was Producer and Live Studio Host for a Roswell UFO Crash special audience event for WATL-TV, Atlanta, 1990; Supervising Producer and Original Concept Creator, ''UFO Report: Sightings'', Paramount Studios/FOX Network, Los Angeles, 1991; produced, wrote, directed, edited ''Strange Harvests 1993'', Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1994; segment productions TN, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, History Channel, 1995-2007.
Linda Moulton Howe's father was Chet Moulton, ]'s Director of ] from 1946 to 1971 and recipient of multiple ] honors.<REF NAME="AP06291994">, ''Associated Press'', June 29, 1994.</ref>


==Bibliography==
'''Film Awards:'''
* Linda Moulton Howe Productions (1989). {{ISBN|0-9620570-1-0}}.
* Chicago Film Festival Golden Plaque, Documentary, ''A Radioactive Water.''
** by ] and ] (2014). {{ISBN|978-0-9620570-0-7}}.
* Denver Int’l. Film Festival, First Place, Documentary, ''Borrowed Faces.''
* ]. Linda Moulton Howe Productions.
* National Emmy Award Finalist, Community Service, Documentaries ''Poison in the Wind'' and ''A Sun Kissed Poison.''
** Vol. I: ''Facts and Eyewitnesses'' (1993). {{ISBN|0-9620570-5-3}}.
* Regional Emmy, Writing Achievement, ''Fire in the Water.''
** ] (1998). {{ISBN|0-9620570-3-7}}.
* Regional Emmy for Directing Achievement, ''A Radioactive Water.''
* ]. Linda Moulton Howe Productions (2002). {{ISBN|0-9620570-6-1}}.
* Regional Emmy for Sound Effects and Editing, ''A Strange Harvest.''
* Regional Emmy Finalist, Best Documentary, ''The Guilty Madonnas.''
* George Foster Peabody Award (Howe contributing producer of science and medical programming) for station excellence to WCVB-TV, Boston, Massachusetts.
* Sigma Delta Chi Excellence In Journalism Award, ''A Radioactive Water.''
* Award for Writing Excellence, Aviation & Space Writers Association, ''A Prairie Dawn.''
* Florence Sabin Award for "outstanding contribution to public health in documentary films and programs," presented by Colorado Public Health Association.
* Ohio State Award, Natural and Physical Sciences, ''Fire in the Water.''
* Ohio State Award, Performing Arts, ''Borrowed Faces.''
* Cine Golden Eagle, “for excellence to represent the United States in international motion picture events abroad," ''Borrowed Faces.''
* American Film Festival, Gold Ribbon Award, ''Borrowed Faces.''
* Colorado Broadcasters Award, Best Documentary, ''Colorado On Trial.''
* Colorado Broadcasters Award, Best Documentary, ''Fire in the Water.''
* Outstanding Film Award, Association for Educational Communications and Technology, ''Information’s Electronic Future.''
* Creative Excellence Award, U. S. Industrial Film Festival, ''Information’s Electronic Future.''
* New York Film and TV Festival, Bronze Award, ''Information’s Electronic Future.''
* Citizens Participation Award from U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, for documentary films about air pollution and energy alternatives to fossil fuels.


==References== ==References==
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* ''Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms'' © 1989. ISBN 0-9620570-1-0
* ''Glimpses of Other Realities, Vol. I: Facts and Eyewitnesses'' ISBN 0-9620570-5-3 © 1994.
* ''Glimpses of Other Realities, Vol. II: High Strangeness'' ISBN 0-9620570-3-7 © 1998.
* ''Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles'' ISBN 0-9620570-6-1 © 2002.
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==External links== ==External links==
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American journalist
Linda Moulton Howe
Howe in 1981
BornLinda Ann Moulton
(1942-01-20) January 20, 1942 (age 82)
Boise, Idaho, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Colorado (BA)
Stanford University (MA)
Occupation(s)investigative journalist, author, television and radio reporter
WebsiteEarthfiles.com
Linda Moulton Howe
OriginBoise, Idaho
Websitehttps://earthfiles.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2007–
Subscribers250 thousand
Total views29,342,669
Last updated: November 16, 2023, 4:25 GMT

Linda Moulton Howe (born January 20, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and Regional Emmy award-winning documentary film maker best known for her work as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories, including her investigation of cattle mutilations and conclusion that they are performed by extraterrestrials. She is also noted for her speculations that the U.S. government is working with aliens.

Early life

She was born Linda Ann Moulton in Boise, Idaho. Howe entered the 1963 Miss Boise pageant for college scholarships and went on to win the 1963 Miss Idaho crown and scholarships, and participated in the Miss America 1964 pageant that year in Atlantic City. Howe received her 1965 B.A. cum laude in English Literature from the University of Colorado. In 1966, Howe was awarded the Stanley Baubaire Scholarship for her master's degree work at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. She received her master's degree in communication from Stanford University in 1968, where she produced a documentary film for the Stanford Medical Center and her Master's Thesis, "A Picture Calculus," at the Stanford Linear Accelerator.

Career

Howe's early work focused on environmental issues. From 1978 to 1983, Howe was Director of Special Projects at KMGH-TV, Channel 7, Denver, Colorado. Her documentaries included Poison in the Wind and A Sun Kissed Poison which compared smog pollution in Los Angeles and Denver, Fire In The Water about hydrogen as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels, and A Radioactive Water about uranium contamination of public drinking water in a Denver suburb. Howe was on staff at WCVB-TV when the station won an Institutional Peabody Award for institutional excellence in 1975.

In 1980, Howe produced A Strange Harvest, a documentary that suggested unusual wounds found on cattle are the work of extraterrestrial beings who harvest body parts required for their survival or research, and that the U.S. government is complicit. The documentary received a Regional Emmy award for Audio Achievement in 1981. Howe became known as a "staunch advocate" for these ideas, and began to focus on UFO conspiracy theories and speculate about alleged connections between cattle mutilations, UFOs and supposed government conspiracies, saying "I am convinced that one or more alien intelligences are affecting this planet". Although Howe claimed she was shown secret documents after being taken into confidence by an agent of the government, author John Greer wrote that Howe presented no evidence for such claims other than "the very ambiguous evidence provided by rotting cow carcasses".

One Idaho state director of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) called her "the most preeminent UFO investigator in the world", and she was named as one of "the gurus of American ufology", although Howe has said she regards herself as a television producer and investigative reporter. Much of Howe's work includes speculations about what she terms "unexplained" phenomena, such as cattle mutilations, crop circles, UFO sightings, and alien abductions.

Howe has produced numerous UFO related programming, including a two-hour special Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms in association with WATL-Fox, Atlanta, was Supervising Producer and Original Concept Creator for UFO Report: Sightings financed by Paramount Studios and the Fox network in Los Angeles that was first broadcast in October 1991 and became the Sightings series on Fox.

Howe appeared on a panel at UFO Disclosure press event held at the National Press Club in 2013, saying she believed "alien technology appears so advanced" that "space and time could be bent by outer space travelers, therefore allowing extraterrestrials to visit Earth".

Howe has proposed that some photographs of crop circles show evidence of mysterious energy she terms "visible light phenomena". Joe Nickell described Howe as a "credulous journalist" in a 2002 article in Skeptical Inquirer magazine, saying that photos Howe published purporting to show mysterious energy are simply misinterpretations of photographic accidents, such as a camera's wrist strap reflecting the flash, or circular artifacts caused by floating dust, errors that Nickell calls "the stock-in-trade of ghost hunters".

Howe was a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM for 28 years, dating back to 2003 with George Noory, and 1991 with Art Bell. In 2019, she ended her monthly appearances on the show. Howe has been interviewed on Larry King Live specials, CNN; The O'Reilly Factor, Fox; Sightings and Strange Universe, Fox; NBC's The Other Side; Britain's Union Pictures, ITN and BBC; The Discovery Channel special Evidence On Earth; the NBC network special, Mysterious Origins of Man, and the History Channel television series Ancient Aliens.

Howe remains active as the host of a weekly broadcast on YouTube that dates back to 2007.

Awards

  • For her early work focusing on environmental issues, she received Colorado's Florence Sabin Award for “outstanding contribution to public health" in 1982.
  • Howe's An Alien Harvest received a New Mexico-Arizona Southwest Book Award in 2015.

Personal life

Linda Moulton Howe's father was Chet Moulton, Idaho's Director of Aeronautics from 1946 to 1971 and recipient of multiple aviation honors.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "About Earthfiles". YouTube.
  2. ^ Peter Knight (2003). Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-1-57607-812-9. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  3. ^ Michael Barkun (4 May 2006). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. University of California Press. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-0-520-24812-0. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  4. ^ Nancy Lusignan Schultz (1999). Fear Itself: Enemies Real & Imagined in American Culture. Purdue University Press. pp. 415–. ISBN 978-1-55753-115-5.
  5. Richard Landes (6 July 2000). Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. Taylor & Francis. pp. 731–. ISBN 978-0-415-92246-3. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Winner of miss Idaho fits 1974 Contestant Composite". Idaho State Journal. University of Northern Colorado. June 17, 1974. "Miss Bacon is the fourth Boisean to win the state title in 25 years. Her predecessors have included . . . Linda Moulton Howe, 1963, Los Angeles TV producer and winner of an Emmy certificate for documentary work; . . ." Archived online with clickable newspaper image.
  7. "Institutional Award: WCVB-TV for Overall Programming Excellence". Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  8. Hepp, Jeff (November 19, 1980). "Howe discusses various mutilation theories". The Mirror. University of Northern Colorado: 7.
  9. Fawcett, Lawrence; Greenwood, Barry J. (1990). UFO Cover-up: What the Government Won't Say. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780671765552. Retrieved 1 August 2022. p. 28: Ms. Howe has received several state and national awards for her documentary work, including a 1981 Regional Emmy for Audio Achievement in "A Strange Harvest."
  10. John Michael Greer (2009). The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation. Llewellyn Worldwide. pp. 67–. ISBN 978-0-7387-1319-9.
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